Sowdens Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1985. Farmhouse/oasthouse.
Sowdens Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lone-outpost-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Bexhill and Battle MP: Dr Kieran Mullan (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse/oasthouse
- Address
- Sowdens Farmhouse, Udimore Road, Brede
- OS grid reference
- TQ 849 191
- Coordinates
- 50.94255, 0.63145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sowdens Farmhouse is a former oasthouse located on Udimore Road, dating from the early to mid 19th century. The western part of the building consists of two circular hop kilns constructed in English bond with a conical tarred roof that lacks a cowl and fantail. It features some cambered openings and brick walls at the front and back, along with a 19th-century fixed casement window at the rear above ledged and braced double doors. The eastern wall has been restored in the 20th century, featuring a softwood frame weatherboarded on the outside, and this section of the storage has been reroofed in a traditional style with tiles. The oast houses retain cambered entrances at ground floor level and window openings at first floor level, although they have lost their drying floors. Attached to the west is a brick and tile-hung structure built around 1965, which is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Sowdens Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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